Sipsey Street Irregulars: Election can determine potentials, but positive change needs personal commitment

Monday, November 3, 2014

Election can determine potentials, but positive change needs personal commitment

Tomorrow we’ll see if gun owners are motivated to vote. That’s not a sure thing, with some declaring it makes no difference who is in power, deeming all politicians sell-outs, and others maintaining “lesser of two evils is still evil” purity and opting for a third party. That among those, at least based on comments they post on the internet, there’s no shortage of “Molon Labe!” bravado, we may see what the likely results of detachment and/or reaching for the unreachable star yield. For those committed to sit on their hands, we’ll see if not lifting a finger now will really work out better for them -- and for us all -- in the long run.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...: What is your opinion of alabama amendment 3?; November 3, 2014 at 7:32 PM
Meister said...: I"m tempted To vote straight ticket dem. Might as well get this whole thing over with, shooting will be required sooner or later. The sooner it happens, the less likely my kids will have to take up arms.; November 3, 2014 at 8:29 PM
Plinker said...: You didn't ask me, but I'll respond to your question if I may. I think it's reinventing the wheel, or trying to. And the wheel in Alabama is already round. The right to keep and bear arms, already guaranteed by the U.S. and Alabama constitutions has been tested and upheld over the years in courts of law. Same for Amendment #5. I'm NRA-Life, and I'm still voting 'no'. FWIW.; November 3, 2014 at 10:27 PM
Scott J said...: Some thoughts on Amendments 3 & 5 here in AL.

They might be just window dressing on our cluster foxtrot of a Constitution. They might be redundant.

However, in the dark days ahead a resounding "yes" on these might serve to remind our often forgetful state politicos of the beliefs of the citizens they serve if they ever face a Ray Marsh moment and have to choose between us and the feds.; November 4, 2014 at 5:38 AM
Anonymous said...: If all the "Molon Labe" talk is mere bravado, then why concern ourselves with the Second Amendment in the first place? What is the purpose of the Second Amendment, anyway?

Even supposedly pro-gun folks (like the NRA) forget this every time they say crap like, "Be sure to vote! Your gun rights depend on it!" Voting is fine if there are acceptable choices (rarely the case), but voting DOES NOT protect our rights, gun or otherwise. Citizen weaponry, backed by the willingness to use it if sufficiently provoked, is what protects our rights. Furthermore, no one who is afraid to risk an early death can EVER be free.; November 4, 2014 at 10:37 AM
Anonymous said...: Because the Molon Labe talk is all most ever do.; November 6, 2014 at 12:00 PM
Chindit said...: To Anon above: Yep. Live in upstate NY. Cuomos challenger only lost by 500k votes. Ny2A wondered where all the gun owners were on Election nite. Couldn't say where they were but I sure as hell know where they WEREN'T.; November 7, 2014 at 12:01 AM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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